Twitter, the DMCA and Copyright in the Age of Sharing
As social media platforms continue to find new ways to allow users to share, post, and forward nonoriginal content and users become more engaged in the practice, the platforms hosting the content and...
View ArticleWireless Mics: The Lay of the Post-Incentive Auction Land Takes Shape
Wireless mic users must prepare to dance a spectrum hokey-pokey to adjust to spectrum reductions, new operating rules The Pope will visit the U.S. in late September, which is already prompting...
View ArticleCopyright infringement is channeled into (c), not state or Lanham Act claims
Quadratec, Inc. v. Turn 5, Inc., 2015 WL 4876314, No. 13–6384 (E.D. Pa. Aug. 13, 2015) The parties compete to sell removable soft tops and other aftermarket parts and accessories for Jeep vehicles....
View ArticlePre-Markman Invalidity Challenge Under 35 USC § 101 Premature
The magistrate judge recommended denying defendants' motion to dismiss plaintiff's claims for infringement of its financial product patents for lack of patentable subject matter as premature because...
View ArticleBroadcasters Cite Pay-TV Consolidation As Reason to Keep FCC Exclusivity Rule
The NAB argues that AT&T, Comcast and others already have great market power.read more
View ArticleGuest Post on Conflicting Claims: The Raw Statistics of PTAB Trials
Guest Post by Richard Bone. Mr. Bone is a partner at the VLP Law Group. The popular view of the PTO’s new AIA reviews, or “patent trials”, is that they have been disproportionately unfavorable to...
View ArticleYouTube patent channel hits 100,000 views
I started taking and answering patent and trademark related questions on YouTube a couple years ago. At first we started with just a moving PowerPoint type of a presentation “How to patent an...
View ArticleABT/University of Central Florida lose patent case at the CAFC
The case involves a patent assigned to the University of Central Florida and licensedto ABT.This is a patent case. The University of Central Florida(“University”) is the assignee of U.S. Patent...
View ArticleNew Rules on PTAB Trials
Earlier this year, the USPTO released a set of ‘quick fixes‘ to AIA trial procedures before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and also promised second package of rule changes. That second...
View ArticleJack Wolfskin prevails on likelihood of confusion issue in paw print case
In Wolfskin v. New Millennium:Appellant Jack Wolfskin Ausrustung Fur DraussenGmbH & Co. KGAA (Jack Wolfskin) applied to the Patentand Trademark Office to register a design mark consistingof an...
View ArticleUK health agency backs e-cigarettes as a means to kick tobacco habit
British health officials said Wednesday that e-cigarettes are about 95 percent less harmful than smoking and added that they do not serve as a gateway or "route into smoking for children or...
View ArticleTarget agrees to pay Visa card issuers up to $67 million for 2013 data breach
On Tuesday, Target and Visa confirmed that they had reached a settlement in which Target would pay up to $67 million to Visa card issuers for a security breach in 2013 that left 40 million customer...
View ArticleShannen Doherty Reveals Breast Cancer, Sues Management Firm for Neglecting...
The actress says mastectomy and chemotherapy could have been avoided.read more
View ArticleAppeals court: Prenda lawyer who drained cash from his law firm must pay up
A Minnesota court has ordered Paul Hansmeier, one of two lawyers considered the creators of the Prenda Law copyright-trolling scheme, to pay sanctions in a case where he and his colleague John Steele...
View ArticleComcast Upselling Cable Modems
Despite its commitment to improving its customer service, Comcast keeps writing and robocalling me with an offer I can refuse. In a rather alarmist tone, Comcast wants subscribers to...
View Article2015 TexasBarCLE Advanced Civil Trial seminar - Dallas
I am spending three days in Dallas this week introducing speakers (this is what course directors do) at the Dallas session of the Advanced Civil Trial course. As I posted"> a few weeks ago from the...
View Article101 Motion Denied Prior to Markman as Premature (in that case)
Readers may be interested in Judge Payne's opinion which came out Monday in Phoenix Licensing, LLC et al v. CenturyLink, Inc., 2:14cv965 (8/17/15) (Payne, J.) and was posted on Docket Navigator earlier...
View ArticleRelativity Bankruptcy: Financier Wants Cap on Residuals, Profit Participation...
Manchester Securities argues debtors haven't demonstrated necessity.read more
View ArticleOverview of USPTO proposed rule changes to practice before the Patent Trial...
USPTO proposed rule changes would amend the existing rules relating to trial practice for inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), the transitional program for covered business method...
View ArticleJeb Bush: crypto “makes it harder for the American government to do its job”
Jeb Bush, one of the leading Republican presidential candidates, told a national security forum that Washington, DC needs a stronger link to Silicon Valley. "There's a place to find common ground...
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